Posted on 03/08/2016 5:36:34 AM PST by SJackson
Settlers in the Jordan Valley have refused to obey the new EU guidelines that call for consumer labels to be placed on their products clarifying that they were not produced in Israel.
Its farmers were particularly taken aback over the last weeks by a request from a German company that they place the statement "Occupied territories by the Government of Israel" on the products, Jordan Valley Regional Council head Dudu Elhayani told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
Last week Elhayani penned an angry letter to the German Ambassador Clemens von Goetze in which he said that the request was "discriminatory" and "politically motivated."
"I want to clearly inform you: we will not label our products. Such labeling is equivalent to the marking of Jews in Europe during dark and terrible times in the past. It is absolutely unacceptable," Elhayani said.
He added that it bore no relation to the reality in Israel or in the Middle East.
It was particularly upsetting to receive such a demand during a wave of terrorism in which Palestinians were attacking innocent Israelis almost daily, Elhayani said.
"It is absolutely outrageous," he added.
Elhayani explained to the ambassador that 60 percent of the people who live in the Jordan Valley are farmers who rely on agriculture to make a living.
In December the EU published guidelines for consumer labeling that state "not made in Israel" on Israeli products produced over the pre-1967 lines.
Elhayani said that 20% of the valley's exports go to Europe. The rest, he said, is shipped to Russia, the US and Asia.
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Germany's/Europe's response will be less effective than last century.
Just label them “ACHTUNG! JUDEN!”
Europe deserves to die.
Govt. sanctioned discrimination. All their equality non-discrimination baloney is just that.
People are trained by the news media to ask about where the product came from and it’s content. If you walk into German grocery...they will have the bio food readily identified and marked as for location. Folks buy local bio food because they think it’s better quality (nothing really proves that point). You go through the vegetable, fruit or meat area of a German grocery....everything must indicate where it came from.
There’s a number now even on frozen food....to tell where the butcher is located and if they shipped Romanian beef into Bavaria to butcher....there will be some indicator.
So, these folks can play whatever game they want....but the public is gaming the episode to be truthful over where it came from. If they don’t want the business...fine, go elsewhere.
Nice to know they have their priorities in order.
I shop at a discount grocery store that sells both produce from Israel and halal meats.
Now, that’s a melting pot...
Wonder how long it will take for someone to complain.
In the EU, baloney can only be produced in Bologna, Italy. It would have to be BS, hogwash or some other non regional term. :)
And it is anathema to free markets, as Milton Friedman pointed out...
If I recall correctly, the issue isn't over labeling the origin of the food. It is a specific labeling 'request from a German company that they place the statement "Occupied territories by the Government of Israel" on the products.' The quoted part is from the excerpt.
I think that the products made in Judea and Samaria should be marked “Not made in Germany by the descendants of Nazis or by Nazi slave labor.”
Jordan Valley dates are the best I tried in the world. Specifically the brand “Delilah”
There was no country printed on the box so I called the office here and only then found out it was from Israel.
So I bought a whole case to stick it to the muslime bastards...
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